Ah, @bobbyllew. What would we do without you? Thanks to Teatime’s interrogation, he’s let slip that Doug Naylor is recording a commentary for Back To Earth. In fact, he’s doing it RIGHT NOW. (Well, he was doing an hour ago, and the show’s quite long…)

We already knew there’d be a cast commentary too, of course, and they’re recording that today too. Here’s a picture to prove it. How can they look so young and beautiful in costume, and yet so old and haggard in their civvies?

I hope both commentaries are on the long cut. Surely that’s what everyone will want to watch when they put on BtE. YES a Doug commentary! I wonder if he’ll be on his own or with Ellard and possibly one of the producers? Lone commentaries can be a bit negative because it’s hard to praise your own work.

Think anyone will be joining him or is it likely to be a solo Doug commentary? I do prefer it when there’s more than one person and they can get interesting (and funny) conversations going. I think next weeks TOS update is pretty much guaranteed to be a report on the commentary now anyway!

> How can they look … so old and haggard in their civvies?
I don’t think they look that bad.
Only Craig looks particularly rough. It’s hard to believe that there’s, what, 10 years(?) between him and Bobby.

Anybody actually going to try and guess the content of Doug’s commentary- will he provide any insight to the unanswered questions, like the resolution of Series VIII, the status of Rimmer, or will he side-on address fan criticisms, like the motives for the amount of Blade Runner references?

Or will he explain it away by citing time pressures and pitch for a movie?

Of the Dwarf-related stuff out there which is never going to get a DVD release (and therefore I don’t feel bad about downloading it), I can find Captain Butler (which I already have on tape from its airing) and The Strangerers and all kinds of oddities… but there doesn’t appear to be a single episode of The 10%ers on the whole of the interwebz. Has anyone ever seen this available anywhere?

I love the strangerers, Im still waiting for a dvd. I think it starts well but then loses direction a bit in later episodes but I love the trying to walk trying
to eat and work out the world stuff in the early episodes. I hate the cliff hanger ending, that im still waiting to be resolved. I want a dvd with a story boarded or filmed resolution. Maybe Dave could bring it back.

I tend to like cliff-hanger endings. I mean Star Trek done them brilliantly, the ending of Enterprise Season 3 with Archer randomly in a Nazi hospital tent with Nazi aliens, Picard on the Borg ship as Locutus about to be destroyed as Riker gives the order to fire in ‘Best of Both Worlds’. Besides I don’t give a shit about the not so good reprise in ‘Tikka to Ride’ since the ending to ‘Out of Time’ is two of the best minutes of television ever.

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